The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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